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"For years which have become decades, Democratic candidates have run on improving working conditions for all Americans, starting with better pay. All we have to do, they've told us, is elect them. But when we have, one of two things always happens:
So what to do? Feel like you could probably do a better job or at least make your point better? You can! Whether you are running to win or just make a point, running outside the two main parties is one of the more hopeful things a citizen can do. Based upon my experience here is a list of the minimum you should commit to. It does not take a lot of money, but it does take a willingness to communicate.
We need to get people to run for office at many levels in a serious manner. As Chris Hedges pointed out, the time for discussion (and petition signing) is long gone.
What does this take? You do not need a lot of money or consultants. Those that say you do also usually say you should pay them. Even if you are just running to make a point and get an alternate point of view out, I believe the below items are the minimum candidates should have. I speak from the experience of trying to contact candidates to give them NPA support. Third party candidates following all the items on this short list are rare.
-Have a platform of items you passionately believe in. The National Green Party has a "shadow cabinet" to always put fourth ideas in opposition to the status quo. It is certainly possible to do that activity on a local level.
-Have contact information. I would consider having email, mailing, and a phone number. At the very least have email and a mailing address. Have a real email address, don't limit communication to a website portal.
-Beware of having your campaign manager or other critical person be a relative ("Uncle Joe") or a close friend who is not dedicated to what you are trying to do. The question is not loyalty to you. The question is loyalty to your cause.
-Have a one page handout that can be easily copied and widely distributed.
-Having cards with contact information can be very handy.
-Answer anybody with questions or offering to help. If you fail to do that, then you are not even serious about running to make a point.
-If you are running under a party make sure the county, state, and National Party knows about you so people can find you. You may have to remind them several times to get on their internet site.
-Go to as many candidate or church events as you can. They are free or should be.
-Any office above that of a small town should have a website with contact info, your platform, a way to give you money, a calender of events, and a way to change the website as events come up.
-Beware of "friends" that will set a website up for you but don't have time to run it. They will leave you high and dry and unable to communicate critical information. I have seen more than once candidates desperately checking their staff to see if anybody knew how to operate a website with an obscure operating system.
-Many talk about a "professional" website. Know the difference between professional and fancy. You do need to communicate to the public and your campaign and be able to change as circumstances demand it. You do not need people to say, "Oh gee, what a pretty website!"
-Websites are inexpensive or free to get, ask me for details or google it yourself. For a free Green Party website see http://www.newmenu.org/. (Even if you are not a member of the Green Party, if there are no Greens running against you and you support the 10 Green Party values, they will consider giving you a free website. Be prepared with campaign details as described above.) My personal opinion is that if you do not have a website with at least these items, then you are not a serious candidate.
-Don't try to reinvent the wheel on positions. There are probably many papers out there who have already said with references what you are trying to say. See other organizations. See also Make Your Case
-A good checklist is at So you're running for office. How do you launch a political campaign online?
Running for office should not be just an exercise to pad a resume. It can be a way to make a better future. Good luck and let the New Progressive Alliance know what you are doing. We support candidates and organizations based upon their support of the Unified Platform.
]]>Bill McKibben recently wrote "How do you solve a problem like the Democrats?" I suggest the real question is How do you solve a problem with environmentalists like Bill McKibben, the Sierra Club, and the League of Conservation Voters?
Do not get me wrong. Bill McKibben is a brave, dedicated, and resourceful leader for the environment. It is just that here he is wrong (see Daniel Ellsberg and Bill McKibben Are Wrong).
Bill does not see how much he is the problem with the Democrats by always giving them a pass. In this very article he said,
Let's begin by stipulating that, taken as a whole, they're better than the Republicans.
Well, no. See The Environment under the Democratic/Republican Uni-Party – Environmental changes for Obama are in the future when they can be changed by Obama or a like minded republican. If you look at the specifics listed in my article and verified by references, Obama's record is worse than that of Bush.
Bill also said,
So what to do? The narrow window of opportunity that physics provides us makes me doubt that a third party will offer a fast enough answer to come to terms with our changing planet. The Green Party certainly offered the soundest platform in our last elections, and in Germany and Australia the Greens have been decisive in nudging coalition governments towards carbon commitments. But those are parliamentary systems. Here, so far, national third parties have been more likely to serve as spoilers than as wedges …
That is because this mantra that this election is too important, the Republicans are worse, etc. becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. What were your actions Bill? After holding great gatherings throughout the nation and world in 2009, 2010, and 2011 we postponed 2012 to avoid embarrassing Obama. White House Protests were always when Obama was not there. On your "Fossil Fuels 2012″ tour you emphasized how important it was to elect Obama. Now that Obama — who as you correctly say could stop the XL Pipeline all by himself — appears to be leaning towards approving it you seem eager to change the subject and take the focus off of Obama. Why did both Clinton and Kerry — alleged environmentalists — both get a pass for putting out demonstrably false Environmental Impact Statements as Secretary of State? (I remember Robert Redford suggested we write a thank you letter to the president when he temporarily delayed the XL Pipeline. I wonder where he is now.)
Bill is an inspiring leader that approaches genius for what he did in building 350 up from nothing to a world wide organization. He is also absolutely right that time is not on our side. He is wrong to assume the democrats are and just need to ramp up their speed. The democrats most certainly will not change as long as environmentalists give them unwavering unconditional support. The experience of decades shows it is only when the democrats lose to Greens and Republicans that they might pay attention. Time is indeed short.
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]]>First the AFL-CIO betrayed working people by not forcefully opposing all of Obama's NAFTA-like agreements that Obama was able to push through where Bush failed. See Economic Graphs The Economy under the Democratic/Republican Uni-Party and Unions Under the Democratic/Republican Uni-Party The AFL-CIO played cute about supporting the pipeline, but the result is they once again sold out major benefits for temporary gains. A.F.L.-C.I.O. Blocks Keystone Oil Pipeline, if Indirectly
They are just the latest in a long line. Remember Robert Redford asking us all to write thank you letters to the White House the first time the XL Pipeline was postponed for the election? Bill McKibben urging us on his fall 2012 tour to vote for Obama and being sure not to have the annual 350 international event or any White House Protests during an election year? The Sierra Club, League of Conservation Voters, many other organizations, and even some members of the Green Party urging us to vote for Obama without preconditions of any kind? And if you think this is an anomaly for Obama please see The Environment under the Democratic/Republican Uni-Party
There will be no apologies to future generations. This will be like segregation: Everyone will pretend they were on the side of the angels all along.
If published credentialed scientists are correct then that means time is of the essence. This building travesty means that working within the system just does not work, thanks in large part to the many who view the electoral success of the democrats more important than any principle. The streets are the only option left. I hope and pray non-violent protests will be sufficient.
]]>WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Corporate Reform Coalition applauds the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) commitment to seek disclosure of all corporate political spending in response to a historical demonstration of investor demand for such a rule-making.
In one of the last actions of departing SEC Chair Mary Schapiro's term, the agency announced that it will consider a proposed rule to require that public companies provide disclosure to shareholders regarding the use of corporate resources for political activities. A petition requesting this rulemaking was filed in 2011 by a bipartisan committee of leading law professors.
In a telephone press conference today, coalition members urged the agency to move swiftly on the rule, now that it is on the agenda.
The SEC has a responsibility to protect investors by regulating the securities markets to ensure that they have the information they need to make investment decisions. Shareholders have a right to know how the companies in their investment portfolio are spending their invested money, especially where these actions are outside the scope of normal business activities, or where the interests of shareholders and management may diverge. This is particularly true with corporate political spending, where certain choices may diverge from a company's stated values or policies, or may endanger the company's brand by embroiling it in hot-button issues.
By putting this rule on its agenda, the SEC has responded in part to the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which struck down laws restricting non-coordinated corporate spending to influence elections. In Citizens United, Justice Anthony Kennedy emphasized the importance of disclosure and accountability for corporate political spending, writing that disclosure requirements "provide[] shareholders and citizens with the information needed to hold corporations and elected officials accountable for their positions and supporters."
Unfortunately, the current public reporting regime does not actually require disclosure of all relevant sources of corporate political spending, and post-Citizens United secret corporate political spending has been on the rise. Corporate funds are frequently funneled through third-party groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which refuse to disclose the underlying donors who provide the financial resources for their political activities. The Chamber of Commerce was the single largest outside spender in the 2010 elections, and spent more than $36 million on the 2012 elections.
Americans across the political spectrum strongly support requiring transparency and accountability in corporate political spending. A record number of public comments – more than 322,940 and counting – have been filed with the SEC in support of the petition requesting a rule requiring disclosure of corporate political spending. These comments have come from such diverse sources as a large group of firms managing more than $690 billion in assets, the Maryland State Retirement Agency, U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.) and 42 other members of the House, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and 12 other senators, John Bogle (former CEO of the Vanguard Group), five state treasurers, US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment, the Sustainable Investments Institute, and many more.
In a recent poll, eight out of 10 Americans (81%) believe that corporations should only spend money on political campaigns if they disclose their spending immediately (including 77 percent of Republicans and 88 percent of Democrats). Eighty-six percent of Americans agree that prompt disclosure of political spending would help voters, customers, and shareholders hold companies accountable for political behavior (support ranged from 83 percent to 92 percent across all political subgroups). Eighty one percent of Americans agree that the secret flow of corporate political spending is bad for democracy, and 84 percent agree that corporate political spending drowns out the voices of average Americans. Seventy-five percent of respondents said they would sign a petition to the SEC in support of corporate disclosure.
Public Citizen, Demos, CREDO Action, Coalition for Accountability in Political Spending, Common Cause, New Progressive Alliance, Walden Asset Management, Natural Investments LLC, Responsible Endowments Coalition, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, The New School Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility, the Campaign Legal Center, Green Century Capital Management, Krull and Company, Colorado Sustainable Financial Planning, Effective Assets™, Alliance for a Just Society, Main Street Alliance, Corporate Ethics International/ Business Ethics Network, the AFL-CIO, Friends of the Earth, Democracy 21, Sunlight Foundation, Pax World Mutual Funds, Domini Social Investments LLC, Public Campaign, Citizen Works, NorthStar Asset Management, Inc., the Communications Workers of America, the American Sustainable Business Council, AFSCME, Trillium Asset Management LLC, CREW, Zevin Asset Management, CTW Investment Group, Coffee Party USA, the Social Equity Group, People For the American Way, the League of Conservation Voters, and US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment participate in the Corporate Reform Coalition working to increase transparency and accountability for corporate political spending.
"We congratulate the SEC for listening to investors and the public, in moving forward on a rule that would require publicly traded companies to disclose their political spending. For Mary Schapiro it is an important legacy, and we ask the incoming chair to move the rule forward to completion this year," said Lisa Gilbert, Director of Public Citizen's Congress Watch.
"I am delighted that the SEC is carefully considering our petition and the research that convinced us that investors should be given the information they need to assess whether and how their money is spent on politics, said Robert Jackson, law professor at Columbia University and one of the original petition filers. "I hope the SEC will propose rules that will shine light on corporate political spending this year."
"I am delighted that the Division of Corporation Finance will be considering this year whether to recommend that the SEC issue a proposed rule for corporate political spending as our rulemaking petition urged," said Lucian Bebchuk, Director of the Program on Corporate Governance at Harvard law School who co-chaired the committee on disclosure of political spending. "The case for such a rule is strong, and the rulemaking petition has attracted exceptional levels of support from the record number of comments filed with the SEC. We very much appreciate the contribution of the Coalition to encouraging the submission of comments to the file."
"The SEC has taken a step in the right direction by putting disclosure of corporate political spending on its agenda and we will hold them to this promise. We cannot continue to keep our nation's pension funds and investors in the dark about the use of corporate treasury dollars in elections. I urge the incoming SEC Commissioners to act quickly to enact these new rules on disclosure," said Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, trustee of the New York City Employee Retirement System and founder of the Coalition for Accountability in Political Spending (CAPS).
"Undisclosed corporate political spending is a risk factor for investors, and now, with the SEC's willingness to consider a disclosure rule, investors will have a fighting chance to ensure that such spending is only made in their interests," said Brandon Rees, Acting Director of the AFL-CIO Office of Investment.
"The SEC should be commended for taking this first concrete step to prevent further secret corporate political spending. Our democratic system of self-government works when we are all political equals. If corporate managers choose to spend money to influence elections, they must do so transparently so they can be held accountable for their positions" said Liz Kennedy, Counsel at Demos.
"Over 150,000 CREDO members took time out of their busy schedules to submit a public comment to the SEC to help end the corrosive flood of anonymous corporate money into our political system. People care deeply about this — it's not just a wonky regulatory issue – and it's a small but important first step toward undoing the damaging impact of Citizens United and restoring a measure of sanity to our political system," said Becky Bond, Political Director of CREDO Action.
"We are pleased that we are one step closer to ending the days where public corporations can secretly give to political campaigns without any accountability to the public or their shareholders," said Bob Edgar, President of Common Cause.
"Fortunately, the SEC is reasserting its historical role as the guardian of market integrity in the face of increasing corporate money in politics. This new rule making follows in the footsteps of the SEC's investigations post-Watergate that uncovered illegal corporate political spending, and the SEC's recent rules addressing pay to play in the municipal bond market and pay to play for investment advisors to public pension funds," added Assistant Professor of Law at Stetson University College of Law Ciara Torres-Spelliscy.
"We are heartened that the SEC has taken a step in the right direction in addressing one of the most pressing issues facing our country: anonymous corporate money in our democracy," said Marge Baker, Executive Vice President of People For the American Way. "Poll after poll shows that this is an issue about which Americans care deeply. Without increased transparency, accountability, and a new approach to addressing corporate political spending, wealthy special interests will continue to undermine our democracy."
"Full disclosure of all political spending is the only way in which shareholders can evaluate risk. Corporate spending for political purposes should be focused solely on creating shareholder value and should be done in a completely transparent manner. I applaud the SEC for taking up the petition to mandate disclosure of political spending and urge them to protect shareholder rights by ruling in favor of more transparency," said New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, trustee of the $150.1 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund.
]]>Galileo and the Fireflies by NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen describes both hope and despair from the Netherlands in the climate fight.
The bad news is the fossil fuel industry is spreading misinformation there just as well as here.
They use the approach that pretending that the science is like a talk-show debate, giving equal weight to all opinions and "beliefs", encouraging the public to misinterpret the skepticism that is inherent in good science, allowing even informed scientists to exhibit their proclivity to extensively cover their fannies with waffling and caveats — is designed by well-oiled coal-fired people who wish to demean science and redefine the matter as a public debate…Putting climate science in a public stock for pillorying is not much different than the treatment that the Church gave to Galileo in disrespecting his science. While Galileo could cross his fingers and meekly accept his punishment, that is not an option available to us — continued ignorance is exactly what the greedy fossil kingpins crave of the public. If we allow the public to be hoodwinked, we sacrifice the future of our children and grandchildren.
The good news is that individuals are not waiting for governments and have developed the solar powered solar lamp also capable of recharging cell phones to replace kerosene lamps among those without electricity. This will have a good effect on both poor people and climate change. They are called WakaWakas and more information can be found here.
Sadly, governments and the United Nations have pretty thoroughly dropped the ball in this matter and the next step will have to be by individuals. It must include both individual action and forcing government action. Neither by itself will be sufficient.
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]]>The destruction of our oceans and environment, Fukushima radiation in the United States, the emergence of a police state, and the deliberate planned destruction of education and our economy in order to enrich people is more important than anything about the Kardashians.
]]>In 2000 the United Nations set up 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for the years 2000 to 2015 using 1990 as a baseline. (There are 21 targets and 60 indicators involved in these 8 MDGs.) They recently released a 72 page report at http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/MDG%20Report%202012.pdf on progress towards those goals as of June 2012.
I first became interested in this while volunteering for the New Progressive Alliance (http://newprogs.org/) At first I saw no connection with an international organization. Then I found we had members from two countries and what we were trying to do was very close to what the New Democratic Party in Canada had done as our team contacted Canadians. Our ten goals (http://newprogs.org/unified-progressive-platform-ratified ) to support peace, people, and the planet were very close to the 8 Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations.
Further many of our joint goals increasingly apply to the United States. Civil rights violation of Manning, Assange, and others, NDAA, Patriot Act, treatment of protesters, etc. are items of concern for the United Nations as well as the New Progressive Alliance. See U.S. Constitution and the 30 Articles of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ The U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights are also found in our constitution and the civil rights NPA goal. The Universal Declaration also has economic rights which are reflected in our NPA goals. Because of all this, the NPA has applied to be a United Nations NGO. (Non-Governmental Organization)
Millennium Development Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. The target of reducing extreme poverty by half has been reached five years ahead of the 2015 deadline, as has the target of halving the proportion of people who lack dependable access to improved sources of drinking water. Conditions for more than 200 million people living in slums have been ameliorated—double the 2020 target.
Millennium Development Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education. More than half of the out of school children for primary education are in Sub-Saharan Africa. The goal is to have a full course of primary schooling for every child.
Millennium Development Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women. Primary school enrolment of girls overall equaled that of boys, but there are many areas where there are significant exceptions. For every level above primary, the percentage of females decreased. The number of women in parliaments is rising, but at a very slow rate. The number of women leading executive branches of government is negligible.
Millennium Development Goal 4: Reduce child mortality. While child mortality has fallen by over one third, we are too far behind and it is impossible to reach the MDG by 2015. This situation is worse in Sub-Saharan Africa. This is especially bad for infants in the first month of life and can be helped by education of the mothers.
Millennium Development Goal 5: Improve maternal health. There is accelerating progress in reducing maternal mortality which has been halfed since 1990, but we are too far behind to reach the MDG in this area. While fewer teens are having babies, progress in this area has greatly slowed. The large increase in contraceptive use in the 1990s has not been matched in the 2000s. Family planning needs are rising while family planning resources are declining.
Millennium Development Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. New HIV infections is down. Unfortunately, among young people knowledge of HIV and condom use is also down. While HIV treatment grew dramatically, it will fall short of the 2015 goal. Measles has had some fall back and is becoming worse of a problem. Significant and durable progress was made against malaria. New cases of TB have started to fall and more patients are successfully treated for TB. There is a 50% cut in the TB death rate from 1990.
Millennium Development Goal Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability. An increase in forest area in Asia partially offset an overall decline. Over-exploitation of fisheries reached a peak in 2008. Though more areas of the land and sea are being protected, biodiversity loss continues to rise. Though the goal of increased access to drinking water was met, much progress needs to be made in Sub-Saharan Africa, places where women are primarily responsible for getting water, and rural areas. Also access to some sort of sewage system is needed for large sections to avoid health hazards. Though progress was made, this sanitation target cannot be met by 2015. Controlling the shrinking of the ozone layer has been a success.
Environmental sustainability is perhaps the most important issue for future generations. The United Nations has shown that it can make steady progress on specific goals over a period of decades. The elephant in the room is climate change is not covered and the approach seems to be, "Someday we really have to talk about this." At the last meeting in Durban South Africa, the United States (under Obama's direction) and Saudi Arabia forced through an agreement saying it was not necessary to even talk about doing anything until 2020 at the earliest.
Millennium Development Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development. The number of cellular subscriptions and internet users has risen greatly. Though many guess foreign aid is much more, the net aid of developed countries to poorer countries as a percentage of combined national income is .31%. In the United States much of the "aid" is military assistance. Core development aid fell for the first time in more than a decade. The UN suggests debt relief and humanitarian aid would help.
This sounds great, but all too often this report suggests the cure is in NAFTA-like agreements in which labor and environmental standards of second and third world countries are ignored for increased trade. This means living standards do not increase significantly in third world countries while declining significantly in developed countries such as the United States.
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]]>By now many of you have heard about my arrest on Thursday evening November 1 and the outrageous, unconstitutional $10,000.00 bond that was placed on me by corrupt Newaygo County officials in Michigan who executed a TWENTY-YEAR OLD warrant to arrest me for "using the telephone to threaten" a right-wing, racist bigot who punched and shoved my ten-year old son Jeremy because Jeremy was "fishing from his dock." This vicious attack by an adult on my son, a child at the time left his lip bleeding and swollen with a black eye and scraped bleeding knees and a badly bruised chest— all of which was photographed by the police I called.
The Newaygo County Sheriff and Michigan State Police refused to arrest Scott Plants for this vicious and brutal attack on my ten year old son which he carried out against my son in retaliation for my political views. As Scott Plants viciously attacked my ten-year old son as he kicked our beagle dog who had tagged along on Jeremy's fishing adventure, Scott Plants shouted for all neighbors within hearing distance— "go fish in Russia."
This was one of several vicious attacks on my children in which right-wing bigots attacked my children in retaliation for my political views expressed through speeches and writings with my two children having been targeted by shot-gun toting members of the right-wing hate group Michigan Militia whose members shot at them as they waited for their school bus— with the Michigan State Police capturing these vile culprits only to let them go with the explanation that "they were only dick hunting." Duck hunting in the off-season hunting of spring.
The State Police of the Newaygo Post who laughed this vile attack on my children off as "right-wing versus left-wing violence" even thought there was no violence at all from the "left." A few years later one of the Michigan State co[ps who thought it was so funny my kids were shot at ended up getting killed in a shoot-out with one of the very same men they apprehended for shooting at my kids… this wasn't so funny anymore as these bigoted cops mourned the death of one of their own ilk.
Grand Rapids, Michigan police arrested me on this bogus twenty-one year old warrant and I was immediately transferred to the hands and jail of the Newaygo County Sheriff in White Cloud, Michigan.
Newaygo County is home to some of the worst poverty in the United States while being a "wilderness" playground for the extremely wealthy many of whom own poverty wage-paying sweatshops in Newaygo County and around the Midwest.
At the present time a national defense committee is being established to try to prevent my imprisonment on these bogus charges.
This kind of political repression is on the increase all across the United States and is sure to intensify no matter if Obama is re-elected or Romney is elected.
We have no national committee against political repression which is directed against those of us fighting for peace, social and economic injustice.
We have agreed to establish a "National Committee to defend Alan Maki and All Victims of Political Repression."
We will mount not only a legal but educational campaign intended to expose how political repression is carried out by the police, the courts, the political establishment and employers seeking to maintain poverty wages while driving down the standard of living of all working people.
For many years, every since its creation, the FBI has been used to spin a web of political repression— attacking those who dare to struggle against racist and for the rights of working people.
Politicians created the legislation and "special committees" to enable the FBI working through its "Red Squads"— special units led by FBI "Special Agents" consisting of city, county and state police and now including private "detective agencies" like Altegrity/USIS and all kinds of union-busting outfits— to carry out this political repression.
I, along with tens of thousands of other activists have been targeted by the FBI and their "Red Squads," so called because the FBI continues to use the Communist Control Act to carry out these dirty deeds.
As my 540,000 plus page FBI dossier clearly shows, the perverted cross-dressing homosexual Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover personally assigned the FBI to attack me— an attack that has been dutifully carried out by the police and the courts with the permission of both the Democrats and Republicans with the malicious attack from Minnesota State Representative Tony Cornish being the latest and most recent where he designated me in an e-mail he sent to thousands of politicians across the Midwest, including each and every state legislator in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan which obviously emboldened the FBI, Grand Rapids Police Department, Newaygo County Sheriff, a corrupt prosecutor and judge to execute this twenty-one year old warrant which was bogus from its very creation with no other intent than to use the "color of law" to carry out this political repression which is the government's response to my outspoken views and activities for peace, against racism and for social and economic justice.
The terms of this outrageous ten-thousand dollar bond being used to enforce these fabricated bogus charges against me, restrict me to having to remain in the State of Michigan— an obvious attempt to thwart our union organizing campaign in the Indian Gaming Industry— which seeks to empower workers employed in the Indian Gaming Industry at poverty wages forced to work in unhealthy smoke-filled casinos— and very conveniently under the terms of the racist "Compacts"— intended to use racism to maintain the poverty on Indian Reservations creating huge pools of cheap labor.
The Indian Gaming Industry created by these "Compacts" arranged by corrupt tribal politicians, local, state and federal politicians and the mobsters who own the slot machines and table games and every other profitable venture associated with the Indian Gaming Industry, is every bosses dream come true: legislatively created poverty wages imposed on workers who have NO RIGHTS under state or federal labor laws.
These racist and anti-labor "Compacts" created by the Democrats with Republicans looking on smiling with bi-partisan approval are now being enforced by the private and quasi-governmental detective agency which hires a bunch of thugs which include former FBI and CIA agents as well as state, county and local police with the FBI and other police agencies sharing their "information and files" with Altegrity/USIS.
Why did these corrupt Newaygo County officials acting in collusion with the FBI and Grand Rapids Police Department decide to execute this twenty-one year old fabricated bogus warrant based on outright lies after twenty-one years?
Because the complainant whose story two Newaygo County Sheriff Deputies and the Newaygo County Prosecutor prompted by the FBI testimony could not have been held up in court. Only weeks after the death of the complainant are these law-enforcement officials fully backed by the prosecutor and judge now executing these warrant claiming I used the telephone to intimidate these violent bigots.
How convenient, the police will now have free reign to further fabricate more lies without there being a complainant or "witness" to these bogus charges— another dream come true; this time for the FBI led "Red Squads", and quite conveniently for the managements of the Indian Gaming Industry.
The terms and conditions of this outrageous ten-thousand dollar bond include prohibiting me from participating in demonstrations or entering any establishment serving alcoholic beverages which means I am prohibited from entering any casino.
I hope all of you will consider participating in getting involved in our efforts defending me from these fabricated bogus charges based on lies in twenty-one year old warrants.
Think about this:
Why would any Judge establish a ten-thousand dollar bond for charges which carry a maximum penalty of six-months in prison and a $500.00 fine?
Why would any Judge even consider enforcing such twenty-one year old warrants which could have been served at any time on me?
Something to think about:
Newaygo County Judge Drake was the very the very prosecutor who authorized these bogus warrants faced on charges he helped to fabricate twenty-one years.
Does anyone think the execution of these warrants with a ten-thousand dollar bond being imposed with the undemocratic restrictions imposed by the terms of the bond has anything to do with "justice?"
Plain and simple: This is harassment and political repression taken to the extreme. But this is what political repression in this country has spun. Like a snowball rolling down a steep long hill on a warm spring day the campaign of hate and harassment just keeps getting bigger and bigger— the intent being to destroy the lives of living, breathing human beings as was demonstrated by the violent death of my good friend and fellow activist, Native American trade unionist and human rights activist, Greg Paquin, last spring. Greg's death was the direct result of where these campaigns of hate generated by the FBI's "Red Squads" ultimately lead. The FBI and local law enforcement working together with the judiciary and reactionary politicians collaborated to make Greg Paquin's life a living hell as they fabricated charges based on outright lies against him, too.
There is no legitimate reason why human beings should be subjected to these kinds of vicious hate campaigns instigated by the FBI and we are going to see what we can do to put an end to these kinds of politically motivated campaigns of hate.
I would also note that right-wing bigot Richard Mellon-Scaife has put his billions of dollars to work in creating several public front groups— including KeyWiki staffed by a known pedophile working out of a cave in New Zealand and Accuracy In Media staffed by a pervert in an expensive suit— being used to "expose" "Communists" and it is not coincidental that I have been singled out along with Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie whose "crime" is participating in meetings with Communists— for outrageous and vicious attacks by both of these right-wing outfits funded by the nefarious right-wing bigot Richard Mellon-Scaife. Attacks that just happen to coincide with these recent attacks by politicians like Minnesota State Representative Tony Cornish who (retired from law enforcement), instead of apologizing to me for calling me "a very dangerous person" because I use my constitutionally protected rights to speak out, write and act in defense of worker's rights which are human rights; Cornish has now proceeded to calling me "one of the most dangerous men in the world."
Please consider joining with us to put an end to this officially promoted bigotry where corrupt politicians working in league with law enforcement, prosecutors and the judiciary are trying to stifle and smother our struggles for peace, social and economic justice.
Today, Newaygo County is a burial ground for democracy but as we have seen, this could be, and is, anyplace U.S.A.— a country these reactionary sleaze-balls hiding their wicked reactionary agenda under the "color of law" proclaim to people everywhere to be "the world's greatest bastion of democracy."
A law suit against, and to halt, these ghastly charges and undemocratic, unconstitutional behavior is being prepared for the federal courts.
My next court appearance has been scheduled for November 12, 2012 at 8:30 A.M. in Newaygo County District Court with Judge Drake presiding.
At the arraignment on November 12 I will be asking these charges be dropped based on the facts:
1.) The complaining witness is now dead;
2.) These warrants should have been dismissed long ago under statute of limitations;
3.) These warrants were knowingly bogus at the time based on lies fabricated by Drake, the police and Karen Plants, Scott Plants husband at the time, from the very time they were issued twenty-one years ago;
4.) The bond is reduced to personal recognizance with no draconian stipulations;
5.) Judge Drake removes himself from this case for obvious conflict of interest;
6.) All charges are dropped;
7.) I am fully and completely compensated for this injustice I am being subjected to.
The Michigan Supreme Court will be asked to intervene by investigating the judicial misconduct, malfeasance and misfeasance in this case of Judge Drake with the request that Judge Drake be permanently removed from "the bench" for participating in this wholly egregious, outrageous judicial misconduct intentionally carried out to deprive me of my most fundamental and basic constitutionally protected democratic and human rights.
Anyone who has ever read the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights along with the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights and then considering these bogus warrants can recognize the injustice in progress in this case.
My Defense Committee will make this case a focus of the upcoming December 10 Anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The foundation-funded outfits whose finances are derived from the donations of the very "philanthropists" who profit from the injustices of working people refuse to take on these cases so grassroots efforts like ours are required.
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Scruggs Harbor is a historic landmark located in Indian Rocks Beach.
It is directly on the Gulf of Mexico and in a very quaint area of
Indian Rocks. We are very family oriented and have plenty of parking
for family and friends. Our places are well furnished and fully
stocked. Steps from the water, this place will remind you of your
childhood and is a treasure to share with your children and friends.
Lots of privacy and freedom to explore and there are no high rises.
We have seen many an artists' brush and been featured on several
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We are centrally located and on the Gulf. There is boating, fishing,
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After playing the new Army of Darkness Defense for the iPhone, which just launched today, we have to say that it's pretty bad Ash. Based on the final scene in the Army of Darkness film, the defend-the-castle game finds you fending off hordes of baddies with your trusty boom stick and Bruce Campbell's many legendary one-liners.
As you progress, you can summon in reinforcements purchased from the castle smithy and upgrade your powers with all kinds of fun skills, like the wrong version of the Necronomicon, which sucks demons into it.
According to developer Backflip Studios (Paper toss, NinJump), Army of Darkness Defense will only be on sale for a limited time, starting today. It's possible that the short shelf life has to do with licensing issues, as the game features lots of lines and dialogue from the MGM film. We just got the iPhone version for 99 cents. But the iPad version will set you back $2.99.
Favorite Bruce Campbell quote: Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun. What's yours?
Like most iPhone game affairs, it's a pretty basic title. But if you consider yourself a fan of the Evil Dead series, we recommend checking it out.
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Gave her first piano concerto at 6 years-old, and her nickname Consuelito stuck during her formal education years in music. Gained the title of music teacher at 17 years old, and became soloist of the National Symphonic Orchestra, Mexico. Besides "Besame Mucho", she was cherished for several other popular songs: "No Me Pidas Nunca", "Pasional", and...
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CVG has teamed up with Samsung to give away a very sexy Omnia 7 mobile - one of the firm's new Windows 7 handsets.
Why do Windows 7 mobiles ring a bell? Because they allow you to access Xbox Live - and update your GamerScore when out and about.
But there's a lot more to the Omnia 7, too. It boasts a 4" Super AMOLED touch screen, a 1GHz processor Wi-Fi and a 5MP camera with HD video recording and GPS.
And that's not all, this incredibly sleek little number also offers a wonderful Zune software package that has been getting rave reviews from tech-heads.
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Why is Mitt Romney going to Israel?
The Republican candidate for president, Mitt Romney, aims to attract Jewish voters by traveling to Israel and meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in July.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will travel to Israel in late July for a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aimed at fleshing out his foreign policy credentials.
Romney will be overseas in late July to attend the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympic Games in London. His campaign often promotes Romney's leadership of the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City in 2002 as a key part of his biography as he tries to unseat President Barack Obama in the Nov. 6 election.
A former governor of Massachusetts, Romney lacks foreign policy experience. He would like to attract support from Jewish voters who traditionally back Democrats, and he has accused Obama of putting the U.S. relationship with Israel at risk in pushing Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians.


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About This Project
After my wife pinned the triple pedestal table, I took a look at the plans and redid them for a double pedestal table 78"x40". This is the first wood project that I have done in close to 12 years, it was good to get back to wood and I look forward to builing some more.
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Weekend Project (10-20 Hours)
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Varathane stains and minwax wipe on poly. The stains I used are Varathane Kona on the pedestal legs and a mixture of Tuscan (2 coats) and 1 coat of Kona over top, on the table top and spreader beam. This was followed by 4 coats of Minwax wipe on poly.
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Welcome to Sri Lanka and the start of your journey through the legendary Tear Drop Isle! Arriving into Colombo Airport you will meet with our local team and head straight out the city to your hotel in Giritale. This afternoon, we visit ancient Polonnaruwa, an 11th century city of compact size. We explore the ruins of the Royal Palace, temples and Gal Vihara which boasts 3 enormous Buddha figures.
First stop on our drive to Kandy today is, Sigiriya – the elevated and mysterious 5th century fortress ruins of King Kasyapa. The 'Lion Rock' is a citadel of unusual beauty rising 200 metres from the scrub jungle. After, we explore the impressive Dambulla Rock Temple which contain beautiful frescoes of Buddha. Last stop of the is in Matale, where we visit an exotic spice garden. OVERNIGHT: Randholee Resort
Today, we visit the elephant orphanage in Pinnawela, home to around 60 elephants. Continuing, we visit the ruined temples of Embekke, Gadaladeniya and Lankatilleke and the Peradeniya Botanical Gardens. Back in Kandy, a scenic lakeside town, we visit the lake, bazaar, gem museum and lapidary. Tonight, we visit the Temple of the Tooth Relic. After, we enjoy a cultural dance show. OVERNIGHT: Randholee Resort
Departing Kandy, we head further into Sri Lanka's hill country surrounded by tea plantations. Situated at 6,525 ft/1,990 m, Nuwara Eliya is one of the highest towns in the region. Today, we enjoy a tour of a working tea estate and visit Hakgala Gardens.
Today we visit Horton Plains, located on a high windswept saddle at 2134 meters. These Plains are hard to reach but the scenery is well worth the effort. At Horton Plains, hike to the Bakers Fall, passing en route the Gem Pit Pool, the Chimney Pool, and the Leg of Mutton Pool. We will then drive you to a little slice of Paradise in Beruwala.
The next days are yours to enjoy at leisure in Beruwala, an ideal tropical beach with it's sparkling warm blue seas and a lush fringe of palm trees, all bathed in warm golden sunshine.
Sadly your journey has come to an end, we will transfer you from Beruwala to Colombo Airport in time for your flight home.
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The fuel for nuclear power stations, uranium splits environmentalists down the middle. Is carbon-free nuclear a green energy option? Or are its global warming credentials trumped by the 10,000-year question of how to deal with its radioactive waste?
Wed, 1 Oct 14
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Lead is the sweetest of poisons, blamed for everything from mad Roman emperors to modern-day crime waves. Yet a lead-acid battery is still what gets your car going in the morning. So have we finally learnt how to handle this heavyweight element?
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The atomic clock runs on caesium, and has redefined the very meaning of time. But it has also introduced a bug into timekeeping that affects everything from computerised financial markets to electricity grids to satellite navigation to the Greenwich Meridian.
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Famed as an anti-aphrodisiac, bromine's biggest use is actually in dousing flames in your home, not in your heart. Bromine-based fire retardants are found in everything from your sofa to your radio. But this chemical element has also sparked a series of health scares. So is bromine something to worry about, or is it just the victim of "chemophobia"?
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Plutonium is one of a family of highly radioactive "synthetic" elements cooked up in nuclear reactors. But does it and its kin have any practical application besides the atom bomb? We travel to plutonium's sunny birthplace to find out.
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Silicon is a key component in solar panel manufacturing and as such is crucial to the future of power for the planet. We hear from John Schaeffer, a solar power pioneer, Richard Swanson of Sun Power and Lynn Jurich, founder of Sunrun, busy developing ways to make solar panel manufacturing and distribution ever more cost efficient. Meanwhile Barry Goldwater Jr., former Republican Congressman, is busy fighting its cause in the corridors of power. The sun, he says, will win the day.
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Silicon is the basis of the hi-tech revolution - why is it so important in the manufacture of silicon chips? And will we continue to rely on it into the future?
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Smelly and colourful, much of our sulphur comes as a byproduct of oil and gas. It is used in fertilisers, to strengthen materials and as sulphuric acid it is the most widely used industrial chemical. The world faces a glut of this chemical element, what uses can it be put to?
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One of the heaviest metals, tungsten - also known as Wolfram - is super strong. Only diamonds are harder. As such it can cut through anything, and is used in manufacturing machinery.
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Added to steel to make it stronger and more resistant at high temperatures, Vanadium is also an essential micro-nutrient for humans. Its new applications include the manufacture of giant batteries and it could be vital to the future of solar energy.
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MINSTER — Minster Village Councilors approved the hiring of Andy Kuenning as the newest member of the Minster-Jackson Township Fire Department during their meeting Tuesday night.
"We have interviewed him a couple times showing him how we operate and he is very anxious to come on board," Minster Fire Chief Dale Dues said. "We think he will be a good fit and he will bring us to 34 firefighters now and we are looking to fill two more spots in the next year or so."
NEW BREMEN — Area business professionals met for a luncheon Tuesday afternoon to recognize one of their own.
During the New Bremen Community Improvement Corporation's annual luncheon, Stan Kuenning received the CIC's 2012 Excellence in Business award.
CIC President Chris Fyock presented the award to Kuenning, who started what is now Western Ohio True Value Hardware.
ST. MARYS — An Ohio Congressman says the Obama administration is hindering domestic energy development with unnecessary regulations and restrictions.
"We have to have energy," 5th District U.S. Rep. Bob Latta, a Republican, told The Evening Leader during a visit to its office Monday. "Ohio gets 85 percent of its energy from coal. They put more regulations on it ... If the EPA and President Obama keep putting higher standards on that, it's going to get to the point to where these companies won't be able to keep meeting them."
CELINA — Two barges, hundreds of loads from tanker trucks and 45-days are all key ingredients in a process aimed at locking up phosphorus in Grand Lake St. Marys to prevent algae blooms.
HAB Aquatic Solutions — the firm that handled last year's application — started its lakewide alum application Monday from the west bank of Grand Lake St. Marys. John C. Holz, water quality specialist with HAB Aquatic Solutions, took state and local officials on a tour of the staging area as a barge refueled its tanks with alum.
ST. MARYS — More than a dozen state and local officials turned out Monday afternoon to officially welcome the newest member in the fight to heal Grand Lake St. Marys.
ST. MARYS — A key component in the fight to heal Grand Lake St. Marys started being applied to the lake by the barrel today.
HAB Aquatics — the firm that handled last year's application — took to the lake to start a 45-day alum application of the entire body of water. The $5 million project is a key component in the battle against phosphorus in Grand Lake St. Marys.
MOULTON — Movement beats strength.
That lesson, among others, was illustrated by local law enforcement officials during a women's self defense clinic held Saturday at Moulton Gun Club. The clinic included hand-to-hand combat tips as well as a component that taught women how to escape the clutches of an attacker.
CELINA — Four people died in a collision Saturday night in Mercer County.
According to a news release issued by Mercer County Sheriff Jeff Grey, dispatchers received a 9-1-1 call at 8:17 p.m. Saturday regarding of a head-on collision on U.S. 127, just south of Clover Four Road.
A 2004 Chevy Venture van driven by Zachary Elliott, 16, 9995 Conover Road, Versailles, was northbound on U.S. 127. A 1997 Buick LeSabre, driven by Henry Fortkamp,76, 1007 Peters Road, Fort Recovery, was southbound on U.S. 127.
ST. MARYS — After raising almost $2,000, local middle school students celebrated by putting their teachers and administrators up to different kinds of humiliation during a Pennies for Patients assembly on Friday.
ST. MARYS — Area residents have an opportunity to win a 1991 red corvette for as little as $2, as an area organization has kicked off its annual fundraiser.


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June always means church denominations are holding their national conventions. And it typically means new fights over homosexuality, women's roles and protecting orthodoxy at all cost. You can count on it.
Some denominations limit the painful combat to every two or four years. There are contests for top offices pitting traditionalists versus reformers, plus debate on a spate of resolutions to either institute change or to protect purity/ tradition. As in regular politics, there are struggles for power that will determine who will be the truth-bearers for the next term.
Denominational conventions, as much as anything, underscore how religion is a human exercise that often strays far from faith and spirituality.
The conventions are news events because they tell us what people, locked in halls for a limited time, can accomplish "for the Kingdom of God." Of course, "schism" is the whispered word at each convention. "Force that change on us," one side threatens, "and we're outta here."
Twenty-five years ago, I was an elected delegate (elder commissioner) to the 193rd General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church USA before it reunited with the "southern church" as the Presbyterian Church (USA). During those nine days in 1981 in Houston, we grappled with issues not unlike what's being confronted now. For many weeks before the assembly, thick packages of materials arrived at our house for me to read in preparation. These days, commissioners get the information online. During the assembly, each has a laptop computer, and new material is constantly supplied electronically. It's almost paperless.
The Southern Baptists, Episcopalians and Presbyterians have been meeting in recent weeks in Greensboro, N.C., Columbus, Ohio, and Birmingham, Ala., respectively. The three Christian faiths have sharp contrasts, and their troubles are not the same.
Yet, for each, the maneuvering for control comes down to whether change or reform will be allowed.
Artful wordsmithing of resolutions and amendments dominates proceedings. Factions work ardently for their positions, always aware that members back home, parachurch groups and other denominations are watching. For most delegates, it's a rare chance to be there in the role of a voting representative. Most will never get the chance again, so the idea of being "historic" undergirds what they do. Every "messenger," "commissioner" or whatever they are called prays for discernment before casting votes. Often, tight vote tallies make them realize how critical their own opinions are.
Commonly, the sides reach a compromise with something they can live with, for now — their sights set on the next convention, often waiting to see what some study committee will bring back in the next cycle.
A common phenomenon is for something considered "radical" to be proposed at a convention. It gets soundly defeated, but is reintroduced at the next one. Eventually it wins because "its time has come." Passage reaffirms what German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer famously noted: "All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident."
So it is with the women leadership issue — long settled in some denominations where gender is now a nonissue. (Why did we wait so long?) In other faiths, however, giving women equal opportunity in leadership is only a distant, ornery dream. Yet walls continue to fall as the profound gifts, talents and wealth of resources of women are recognized and employed.
Last Sunday, Episcopalians boldly elected Nevada Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori as its new presiding bishop — the first female bishop in the American church and first woman to lead any of the 38 Anglican provinces worldwide. For conservatives in the 77 million-member Anglican community across the planet, this marks the second time Americans have done the outrageous. They are still reeling at the 2003 election in New Hampshire of an openly gay bishop, the Rev. Gene Robinson. That caused some Episcopal congregations in the U.S. to withdraw affiliation with the U.S. church and align with Uganda and Rwanda provinces that have declared a state of "impaired communion" with their counterparts in America. Some Episcopalians lament that Schori's election jeopardizes efforts for reconciliation between Anglicans and Roman Catholics who remain staunchly male-led.
Schori said it was time to put the divisive issue of homosexuality aside so that the church can move on to "the urgent mission of ministering to people in need." On Tuesday, the Episcopal delegates rejected a moratorium on further electing gay bishops.
"Our primary emphasis needs to be feeding people, educating children and looking for health care for everybody," Schori said.
In what has been called a surprise, messengers of the Southern Baptist Convention June 13 elected Frank Page of Taylor, S.C., as its new president in a rare three-man contest. His election is being attributed to the grass-roots efforts of bloggers. It was called the most significant political development in more than 20 years for the denomination. Page was an outsider who captured the fancy of young Southern Baptists presumably seeking a more moderate leader and what Baptist Press said "greater transparency and accountability in the church."
The Presbyterians' General Assembly on Tuesday voted to retain church law that says clergy and ordained laity (elders and deacons) must confine their sex lives to man-woman marriages, but local congregations and regional groups, or presbyteries, can exercise flexibility in choosing clergy and lay officers if sexual orientation or other issues arise. In the end, two sides got something they wanted. In two years, you can bet, they'll chip away at that.


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Ship Upgrade
As the player progresses farther into the story of Starbound, they'll unlock additional modules on their starter ship. Other ships obtained can be upgraded in a similar manner. These additional modules provide more space on the ship for players to place objects, as well as crafting stations, containers, and furniture.
Ships can be upgraded by use of items such as the Ship Repair Kit and FTL Repair Kit.
To activate ship upgrades in the current nightly test builds use the following /spawnitem shipT2
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Work In Progress Designs
The first preview of ship upgrades was a tweet by Tiy which shared the full upgrade set for a human ship.[1]
GeorgeV has tweeted two work in progress designs for ship upgrades for Avian and Glitch ships.
Floran ship upgrades were first previewed by Rho via twitter.[2]. Mollygos later shared the full Floran upgrade set in a news posting on Starbound's homepage[3].
The remaining upgrades, Apex and Hylotl, were found in the nightly test build.
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I discovered a very interesting article here explaining Homer S. Powley's simplified model for estimating the muzzle velocity of a bullet in a shortened or lengthened barrel,
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I haven't bothered to track down any of the actual writings of Mr. Powley, so I am unsure of the reliability of these equations. However, I created a chart based off of these equations which will allow anyone to easily estimate the muzzle velocity of any typical handgun round out of a shorter or longer barrel for typical barrel lengths.
In order to use the chart, use the table that corresponds to the caliber in question. Locate the column that corresponds to the barrel length which the muzzle velocity was measured at. Then multiply by the factor provided in any given row to get the expected muzzle velocity out of a different length barrel. This gives you the expected muzzle velocity of THE EXACT SAME AMMUNITION fired out of a shorter barrel.
In general, the model predicts somewhere between 43 fps - 94 fps loss in muzzle velocity per 1 inch shortening of the barrel.
Keep in mind that muzzle velocity depends on a great many factors such as the barrel rifling, load, and shot-to-shot variability.
However, it is my hope that this chart might prove accurate in comparing the same ammunition fired from different models of gun produced by the same company. For example, in order to assess the relative loss of muzzle velocity between the standard, compact, and sub-compact Glock varieties using the same ammunition.
I would welcome any chronograph evidence that you may have which can support or refute the accuracy of this chart. Thank you!


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I will be using a ceramic platter for my guest 'book' at my upcoming wedding. I will be painting, firing and glazing it ahead of time and my guests will then use paint markers (probably Pebeo Porcelaine 150 paint markers) to sign with.
Does anyone have experience with these pens or can you recommend another type? If so, how many pens should I get? I plan on 150 guests at my wedding but couples will probably sign together so it could be around 75-100 signings on my platter. Do you think 10 pens is too much? too many? I'm not sure how far the ink/paint goes. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks! |
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- Posted by ArtsyCraftsy (My Page) on Fri, May 17, 02 at 11:36
I think that 5 markers would be plenty- they are not real cheap. I have used the Pebeo paints in the jar and was very happy with them so the markers should be good, too. I think Pebeo is the best quality of the options available. People just need to be careful of where others have signed- give it a few minutes to dry so they do not smear another person's signature. Maybe have some baby wipes there to wipe off mistakes or clean hands. Hope this helps, Steph. Your wedding is going to be beautiful, and worth every minute of the hard work you are putting into it! |
- Posted by Elaine_in_NJ (My Page) on Sat, May 18, 02 at 12:50
I would keep a few aside just in case someone walks off with the one they are writing with. It's just a habit with some people. ~~Elaine~~ |
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1 I will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonders. |
2 I will be glad and rejoice in Thee; I will sing praise to Thy name, O Thou Most High. | 2 I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High. |
3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at Thy presence. | 3 My enemies turn back; they stumble and perish before you. |
4 For Thou hast maintained my right and my cause; Thou sittest on the throne judging right. | 4 For you have upheld my right and my cause; you have sat on your throne, judging righteously. |
5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, Thou hast destroyed the wicked; Thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever. | 5 You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their name for ever and ever. |
6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and Thou hast destroyed their cities; their memorial is perished with them. | 6 Endless ruin has overtaken the enemy, you have uprooted their cities; even the memory of them has perished. |
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Today, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman will address the 114th Congress regarding the necessity of passing Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) as a predicate for completion of the ambitious U.S. trade agenda. TPA allows the President to "fast-track" trade agreements for approval or disapproval by Congress; essentially, TPA asks the House and Senate to accept or reject a trade agreement, without amendment, within 90 days of its submission to Congress by the President. The process enables the United States to negotiate more beneficial trade agreements with other countries, in part because of the reduction in approval time compared to other pieces of legislation (that often languish in committee markup) and because it incentivizes foreign countries to make good faith trade negotiations with the United States, since they know that Congress cannot rewrite the deal.
Presidents need fast-track negotiating authority because the simple reality is that finding consensus on trade agreements becomes nearly impossible if all 535 members of Congress get a chance to rewrite the terms of trade agreements American officials have spent painstaking years negotiating with multiple foreign partners. And as Representative Froman wrote in a recent Foreign Affairs… Read the rest
Senator and likely presidential hopeful Marco Rubio (R-FL) appeared on last Tuesday's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, promoting his new book and weathering an endless stream of jokes about his home state of Florida. While the discussion covered a range of policy ground, we wanted to highlight one comment by Senator Rubio that showed an all too common misunderstanding of innovation and automation.
Rubio said, "The concern I have about the minimum wage increase is that we have been told by the CBO and independent analysts that it will cost certain jobs. And that happens when some businesses will decide that well, you've now made our employees more expensive than machines so we're going to automate. So in 5-10 years it's going to happen anyway but this will accelerate this process, when you go to a fast food restaurant it will not be a person taking your order, there will be a touchscreen there that you will order from and when you get your order it will be right. [uneasy laughter] But the point is, if you make that person now more expensive than that new technology, they're going … Read the rest
Recently, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler gave a speech arguing that "A 25 Mbps connection is fast becoming 'table stakes' in 21st century communications," with the implication that anything less than 25 mbs is not really broadband.
This is an odd sort of statement, as it appears to be based not on any real analysis, but simply on the Chairman's opinion. He tried to provide some rationale for this number when he stated "It's not uncommon for a U.S. Internet connected household to have six or more connected devices – including televisions, desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. When these devices are used at the same time, as they often are in the evenings, it's not hard to overwhelm 10 Mbps of bandwidth." I don't know about you, but I personally am generally not using two devices at once. And as the Census Bureau reports, the average household size in the U.S. is 2.58 people with the median size being less. So, the majority of households are not overwhelming 10 Mbps of bandwidth.
So, if sub-25 Internet connections are not really broadband what does this mean in terms of what nations have … Read the rest
Boston Consulting Group and Qualcomm have just released a new report examining the impact of mobile devices on the economy, focusing on the benefits mobile brings to small businesses and consumers in six countries including the United States, Germany, Korea, Brazil, China and India. The authors estimate that mobile technologies increase consumer welfare by the equivalent of 10 percent of total income in developed countries, and 20-45 percent of total income in developing countries. In fact, the total value that mobile brings to consumers is estimated to be more than double the size of the of the entire mobile industry revenue.
These economic gains have been enabled by remarkable technological progress. Global average cost per megabyte has declined from nearly 98 percent between 2005 and 2013, while maximum data speed has increased from ~10 to 250 mbps over the same period. These vast changes in cost and performance have made mobile technology affordable to billions of people around the world. Even so, more technological progress is necessary: 90 percent of mobile technology users report having problems with their connection. 5G and 6G technologies will continue to improve access and connectivity … Read the rest
A new NBER paper, "Starving (or Fattening) the Golden Goose?: Generic Entry and the Incentives for Early -Stage Pharmaceutical Innovation" (summarized here), asks whether competition from generic drugs disincentivizes research. The authors, Branstetter, Chatterjee and Higgins, find that this does broadly seem to be the case: drug development activity decreases after generic drugs are introduced. This result highlights the important tradeoff between research and consumption. When consumers pay for drugs, intellectual property (IP) policies play a large role in determining how much of that cost goes toward future drug development.
Pharmaceutical markets are risky: drug development takes 12 years from initial pre-trial preparation to bringing a drug to market, and between the complexity of the human body and the extended regulatory approval process only a small proportion of drugs make it all the way to market. Of the ones that do, a small minority make up the large majority of profits.
This riskiness means that policies play a critical role in getting pharmaceutical markets to work correctly: if companies do not have incentives that outweigh the risks, they will not invest in researching new drugs and bringing them … Read the rest


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The Maxima starting in 2009 model year is actually 290 hp paired to a CVT.
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Actually it was estimated at the time that one person would die from an Orion vessel going to Mars.
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It's not accurate to say that "practically every Bible from the time of the Codex Sinaiticus and earlier would be "corrupt" by your standard". The Majority Text is what virtually all New Testament books were going back to the autographs (originals). Everywhere outside Egypt, Christians did a generally excellent job copying books of the NT just as Jews did copying the OT.
Regarding the fight over what texts were to be included in the Canon, this was largely a fight between Gnostics and everyone else. You had the text we see today, the Apocrypha (interesting historical texts which don't have complete compatibility with known canonical texts, and texts which were clearly Gnostic. The idea of throwing out the God of the OT is a Gnostic one. The NT texts clearly show Jesus saying that He was here to fulfill the OT law. The OT is quoted in several books of the NT.
Regarding the trashcan assertion made by many, it's not as unreasonable as you may think. While recycling it into a new book may seem pragmatic, it wasn't that simple. Even this corrupt manuscript contained many uncorrupted words of God. Many scribes would not have felt it appropriate to destroy a book containing the words of God. Look at the Jews today in Israel who bury old texts in caves because they don't feel it's ok to destroy them.
Codex Sinaiticus is a Gnostic corruption (568 comments)
Codex Sinaiticus is a Gnostic corruption of the original text. It includes Gnostic books such as The Shepard of Hermas and Barnabas. There are *thousands* of differences in the text of this book and the Majority Text (Textus Receptus). The Majority Text is the text which virtually all copies of the Greek text outside of Alexandria share. There are thousands of copies of the Majority Text in part or whole. The Alexandrian manuscripts which are largely responsible for our modern translations (post KJV) are primarily Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus. These two copies are both from Alexandria (a big Gnosic area). These 2 texts do not agree well with each other, nor other copies of the text.
Codex Sinaiticus survived to such a great age because it was discarded in a trashcan. Valued texts were worn out (copying by hand made good texts too valuable to discard). These texts became popular in the modern era in the 1800s when Wescott and Hort used these to create a *new* Greek manuscript by combining Codex Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, and Textus Receptus. Wescott and Hort weren't exactly upstanding Christians to look to for spiritual advice. They founded the Ghostly Guild, an occult society with a very elite pagan membership.
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Christmas is _not_ a holiday of Christian origin. Nimrod's widow claimed that Nimrod's spirit would impregnate her. She would lay on her roof naked at night for this to happen. After fooling around with her servants, she gave birth to a son named Tamuz on December 25. Since Nimrod claimed the title "Sun God", his widow claimed that Tamuz was the sun of Nimrod and' therefore, "Sun of the Sun God". She told everyone to celebrate Tamuz's birthday each year.
Jerimiah Ch 10 denounces the "Christmas Tree" as a pagan idol.


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The Daily Troll: Getting closer to working on Bertha. Dissident police raise new complaints. 'Tony Soprano' return?
Bertha: Progress
Work on Bertha is apparently going about as expected. Crews are just about done with the concrete pilings for the access pit that will allow them to work on the ever-so-stuck tunnel-boring machine. That's what the Washington State Department of Transportation said today. The building of the walls for the pit sounds like it should be done by the weekend, which makes it pretty much on schedule.
The state also posted a video with Chris Dixon, who's managing the project for contractor Seattle Tunnel Partners. The video offers lots of details and some neat animations showing how some of the work will be done. Toward the end (at the 6:09 mark), Dixon gets to the reassuring bottom-line: "The project is very, very important. We are going to complete the project." He goes on to remind us that "The tunneling industry is watching this project very closely." No doubt: Potential clients (if they're still interested) must be asking a lot of questions. Bertha's woes could be very bad for the tunneling biz. — J.C.
Police: Leaders know we are at risk
In a new legal filing, police officers say their bosses, union leaders and city officials privately acknowledge that new use-of-force guidelines put officers at risk. The Seattle Times' Steve Miletich characterizes the new filings as a sign of "open revolt" against federally-mandated reforms within a significant portion of the Seattle PD. City officials have noted that the federal judge overseeing their reform settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice has already ruled the guidelines constitutional. The officers who brought the suit call the guidelines so complicated that officers are overly hesitant and even paralyzed when it comes time to make life-or-death decisions. And that, they say, puts police at undue risk. — J.C.
Summer by the minute(s)
Seattle has been enjoying a lot of real summer weather: Meteorologist Scott Sistek reports on Komonews.com that the city (based on measurements made at the UW) has had just under 10,000 minutes this summer where the temp was 80 degrees or higher. We're at 9,979 minutes (or 166-plus hours; 6.9 days), and there's a good chance we will top 10K. Sistek came up with his fun idea of charting the minutes during chilly, rainy 2011, when we entered August with less than a full hour of 80-degree temps. — J.C.
Tony Soprano: NOT dead
When author and entertainment critic Martha P. Nochimson popped the question to Sopranos creator David Chase recently — you know, the question millions of fans around the world have been arguing about since the controversial black-screen finale of Chase's award-winning HBO mob opera — the laconic auteur reportedly shook his head and said (wait for it): "No, he isn't." Here's a clip of that last scene for refresher purposes, but forget any dreams of a Sopranos sequel. Tony may be alive and well in David Chase's dark imagination, but James Gandolfini, the actor who was and always will be Tony, isn't. — M.B.
Holiday weekend: Troll back Tuesday
Rushing to beat the holiday crowd to the door, The Daily Troll will be off Friday. (Back on Tuesday.) While we're away, don't forget that Crosscut's Knute Berger and other journalists will join KUOW host Bill Radke on Friday morning at 10 a.m. The group will be discussing (what else?) the week's news. Think bikeshare, bad drivers, Amazon's latest acquisition and Weyerhaeuser's move to Pioneer Square. (Regarding Weyerhaeuser: No Tacoma jokes, please. It deserves better. ) — J.C.
Wrapping up the week
There were a couple busy days, so we never got a chance to note the upcoming closure of a great bit of Seattle Weird: Wallingford's Erotic Bakery (first reported on the SLOG, under the headline: "OH NO! The Erotic Bakery is closing"). A good follow-up by KIRO Radio's Rachel Belle quotes owner Kimmie Barnett on a typical phone call:
Erotic Bakery: "Hello, Erotic Bakery."
Customer: "Well, this is going to sound like an unusual question..."
EB: "Probably not."
Will Seattle now become a bit more like, hmm, Kansas City? Probably not. In fact, a web search suggests that K.C. and a lot of other spots around the country with their own similarly-themed bakeries have become more like Seattle. — J.C.
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Posted Thu, Aug 28, 10:32 p.m.
Police officers at risk? Sorry, it's the rest of us that are at risk from them. Enforce the fed mandate and if they squeal, out the door. I hear, Ferguson MO might have an opening for a cop of their caliber.
Posted Fri, Aug 29, 12:46 a.m.
"Open revolt" sounds like a good way for some LEOFF pension payouts to be frozen.
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Three artists showcased different gharanas with confidence.
Aashish Chakraborty, disciple and son of late Pt. Prabodh Chakraborty, presented a pleasant Hindustani recital at a festival organised jointly by the SGS Sabha and Sri Guru Ganayogi Panchakshara Sangeet Yogashram Trust Music.
Trained by Pt. Gautham Prasad, Pt. Prasun Bannerjee and Pt. Jagadeesh Prasad of the Jaipur gharana, Aashish currently works as a senior faculty member at Ustad Rashid Khan's Academy of Music.
That evening, he began his concert with 'Kahan Preetam Pyaare Aao' in Mishr Maand, then moved to Megh and Durga, touched Kaushik Dhani and Khamaj and ended once again with Mishr Maand. Aashish chose Puriya Kalyan in vilambit ektaal for elaboration. The lyric, 'O Man Aa,' was followed by a piece in dhrut teen taal, 'Mere Ghar Aaja,' which was a full-throated presentation and showcased the beauty of the raag.
Then, in his powerful voice, Aashish rendered a thumri-style bhajan in different ragas, which was the tour de force of the evening. Accompanying him were Dattatreya on the tabla, Kiran Hangal on the harmonium and Viresh Madri on the violin.
Moushami Chakraborty, who took the stage next, chose Yaman and presented 'Aaj Mangal.' After a tarana, she ended her concert with 'Ban Chale Ram Raghurayee,' the famous bhajan of the Patiala gharana. She was accompanied on the tabla by Bassavraj and on the harmonium by Viresh Madri.
Moushami has trained under Chandan Chakraborty, wife of Pt Ajoy Chakraborty, and the maestro himself. She showed great promise especially while singing taans; but she needs to watch her pitch.
Pt. Abhijit Banerjee showcased the Farukabad gharana in his solo tabla concert. Starting with Peshkar in teen tal with traditional bols, he moved on to 'Qaida' from the Delhi gharana, once again in teen tal. In Qaida, particular bols are presented in variegated forms ending in Tihai.
This was followed by an Ahmed Jan Tirikwa Khan composition called 'Challan' which showcased gat and chakradhar and many kinds of layakari.
Accompanying him on the tabla was his disciple Chandrajit, and on the harmonium was Kiran Hangal. It was a memorable performance.


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Major domestic automakers General Motors and Chrysler were in deep trouble last year, dropping some 400,000 jobs. Washington stepped in, providing more than $60 billion in aid.
"Many believed this was a fool's errand," Obama said in his radio/web address Saturday. "But we decided that while providing additional assistance was a risk, the far greater risk to families and communities across our country was to do nothing."
Obama points to improvements in the auto industry since then: added jobs, loan payback, and profitability at Chrysler for the first time in three years.
As Obama acknowledges, "We still have a ways to go." And there are questions about the way in which GM has paid back Uncle Sam, raised by Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley this week in a letter to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.
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